St. Louis native Tom Barlow comes off the bench to score his first MLS goal and the game-winner as the New York Red Bulls defeat defending MLS champion Atlanta United, 2-1, despite playing a man short for 55 minutes.

Kutis scores its third victory over a German first-division team in five years by handily beating Schwaben Augsburg, 3-0, at Public Schools Stadium. Kutis, which defeated Nuernberg in 1955 and Eintracht Frankfurt (when the Kutis players were sponsored by Zenthoeffers) in 1951, capitalizes on Schwaben fouls for all three goals from Ruben Mendoza and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famers Bill Looby and Harry Keough (pictured).

On leave from the U.S. Air Force, St. Louis native Carl Gentile scores in the 88th minute to give the St. Louis Stars a 1-1 draw with the Cleveland Stokers in an NASL match at Busch Memorial Stadium. Gentile scores after taking a pass from Gentile’s old St. Louis U. teammate and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer, Pat McBride. Gentile will appear in his first of six matches with the U.S. National Team on Sept. 15, 1968. One of the top all-around athletes in St. Louis history, Gentile played minor-league baseball in the Mets’ organization and will be on the reserve team of the NFL’s Houston Oilers as a placekicker in 1969-70.

The U.S. Women’s National Team drubs New Zealand, 5-0, in an international friendly before another massive crowd for women’s soccer at Busch Stadium. Playing before 35,761 fans, St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn goes the distance at center back.

The first major European club to visit St. Louis gives a team of hand-picked local stars a lesson as Hakoah of Vienna outclasses the St. Louis All-Stars, 4-2, at St. Louis U. Field.

Zenthoefers of St. Louis shocks Eintracht Frankfurt of West Germany, 2-1, at Public Schools Stadium. “Rated a three- or four-goal stronger team,” according to Dent McSkimming of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Eintracht falls behind 2-0 on goals by Amiel Muniz and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Harry Keough. Eintracht scores late on a goal by Hubert Schieth.

In one of the most storied games in St. Louis soccer history, the CYC All-Stars nearly pull off a massive upset before settling for a 1-1 tie with Liverpool at Public Schools Stadium. Liverpool had just won England’s First Division, forerunner of today’s Premier League. The CYC All-Stars are a team of St. Louis-born amateur players. Liverpool, missing three players with the national team and captain Ronnie Yeats out with a gimpy knee, manages to preserve its dignity by netting a goal with four minutes left to salvage a draw. Photo shows the CYC’s Sam Davis, top, and Liverpool’s Alan A’Court.

Central Brewers (formerly Stix, Baer and Fuller) of St. Louis win their third consecutive National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) on aggregate goals against the Pawtucket (R.I.) Rangers at Newark City Stadium in Newark, N.J.

Just a few hours after graduating from St. Louis University, Jim Bokern (pictured) scores the game’s only goal as the St. Louis Stars blank the Rochester Lancers before 10,382 fans at Busch Stadium.

Mike Seerey (pictured) scores both goals as the heavily St. Louis-influenced U.S. team ties Mexico, 2-2, in an Olympic qualifier at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.

On a banner day for U.S. soccer, the Ben Millers defeat Fore River of Quincy, Mass., 2-1 in the National Challenge Cup final at High School Field, Grand and Laclede avenues. The Cup title is the first of 90 national soccer championships won by St. Louis teams.

Club Nacional de Football of Uruguay defeats the St. Louis All-Stars, 4-1, before 6,500 fans at St. Louis U. Field. The winners include nine players from the Uruguay team that won the 1924 Olympic gold medal, considered the world championship at a time when there was no World Cup.

Joe Simpkins Ford of St. Louis wins its second U.S. Open Cup championship in three years by gaining a 1-1 tie with Ponta Delgada in Fall River, Mass. The title is decided on goal differential over a two-game series. Simpkins won the opener 2-0 in St. Louis on April 22.

Kutis stuns one of Europe’s best, Nuernburg of West Germany, 3-2, under the lights at Oakland Stadium. Nuernberg, a first-division team with nine national titles to its credit, includes Max Morlock, whose six goals tied him for second among the goal-scoring leaders in the 1954 World Cup won by West Germany. Morlock amazes the crowd with a spectacular goal to give the Germans a 2-0 lead. Rich Meisemann and Bob Rooney score to tie the game, and Bill Looby’s second-half goal is the winner.

Chester Kowalewski keeps a lid on the goal for Kutis in the U.S. Open Cup semifinals. But the Los Angeles Maccabees, “applying relentless pressure, finally solved the goalkeeper wizardry” of Kowlewski in the final minutes to score a 1-0 victory in Los Angeles.

The St. Louis Stars stun England’s Coventry City, 2-1, at Mullally Field. Coventry City had finished sixth in England’s First Division, today’s Premier League. The victory is the first ever for a St. Louis team over an English club. Tom Bokern scores the winner with just 30 seconds left.

In what will be described as “a travesty” by U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame journalist Dent McSkimming in the next day’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Beadling of Pittsburgh pulls off a miracle 5-1 win over Simpkins Ford of St. Louis in the U.S. Amateur Cup finals.

The United Soccer Leagues awards a franchise to St. Lous Scott Gallagher Soccer Club. The team, St. Louis Football Club, will begin play in 2015 in the USL’s third-division PRO league.

Machel Millwood’s goal at 6:33 of overtime lifts the Baltimore Blast past the St. Louis Steamers to win the MISL championship before 16,061 fans at the Savvis Center (today’s Enterprise Center).

Rookie Will Bruin scores a hat track for the Houston Dynamo against D.C. United as the Dynamo win, 4-1. Fellow St. Louisan Brad Davis assists on Bruin’s second and third goals.